Trump Wins Reliable States, Harris Sweeps Blue Strongholds: First Results Are In, What Do they Say

Last Updated:November 06, 2024, 08:27 IST

Harris and Trump each need at least 270 electoral votes to win the race for White House.

People attend a watch party at 230 Fifth Rooftop Bar, as the Empire State Building is seen in the background, in New York City. (Photo: Reuters)

Early results have started coming in from different US states amid the ongoing vote counting. While Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump is sweeping reliable states, Democratic Kamala Harris is picking up blue strongholds.

Harris and Trump each need at least 270 electoral votes to win the race for White House.

Meanwhile, it is too early to conclude anything about the battleground (swing) states of Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada, which are seen as pivotal to the candidates’ path to victory.

The union-heavy states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin used to be more reliably Democratic but have shifted in recent years as their populations have changed and as former President Donald Trump has appealed to White voters without a college degree.

States with growing population such as Arizona and Nevada in the West and North Carolina and Georgia in the East comprise the four Sun Belt battlegrounds. Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina used to be more reliably Republican. Trump won North Carolina twice, but the margins were close in 2020. The last Democrat to win there was Barack Obama in 2008. Biden was the first Democrat to win Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992 and Arizona since Clinton in 1996.

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